Groundwork

Published by: Gnomon Press (Paperback 1979)

Published by: Gnomon Press (Hardcover 1979)

Included poems:

The Hollow

Blue Ridge

Fear

Plankroad

Huckleberry Bald

Appalachian Trail

Mountain Bride

The Flying Snake

Lost Flower

Real and Ethereal

Galacker: The Galax Gatherer

Sport

Otis

Snowlight

Death Crown

Canning Time

Burnoff

When the Ambulance Came

Slop Bucket

Walnutry

Baptism of Fire

Bean Money

Huckleberries

Reuben's Cabin

Upstairs at the Country Store

Wallowing

Bricking the Church

Tear Bottle

Burning the Hornet's Nest

Milksick Pen

Smokehouse Dirt

Blackberries

Pigeon Loft

Mountain Page

Zircon Pit

Secret Pleasures

Den Tree

Devil's Courthouse

Trash

Praying Through

Related media:

Mountain Bride (poem)

Praise for Robert Morgan:

Robert Morgan's writing is... clear and simple, yet it possesses a luminous poetic quality, a rough beauty hewn from the countyside and from old, forgotten ways.

— The Philadelphia Inquirer

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[Robert Morgan] is a seasoned author whose prose reads like poetry and whose nonfiction reads like novels... His books teach and inspire. He gives the past, with all its heroes and villains, a new life, if not a new purpose.

— Southern Literary Review

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Robert Morgan's poems are always exciting for their precise knowledge of country things, and of how things go in the world of natural fact and process. This new collection gives us also some delightful lore from the Southern mountains: we learn of the horse fiddle, and holy cussing, and the intrepid pastor who held off bear or panther with his umbrella.

— Richard Wilbur, former U.S. Poet Laureate

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